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Author: Valérie Dufour
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 530
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Peter Noever, Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens. Essays by Val rie Dufour, Anette Freytag, Siegfried Mattl, Paulus Raine and Eduard F. Sekler, and conversations with Marc Hotermans and Heimo Zobernig.
Author: Peter Noever
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Published: 2006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christian Witt-Dörring
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9783791368108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chloé Cooper Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-04-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1982152001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an “exquisite” (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. “Bold, honest, and superbly well-written” (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.
Author: Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558761995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA specialist in Islamic architecture and social history, Behrens-Abouseif (U. of Munich) surveys the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century CE, drawing on Arabic texts in philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, literary criticism, historiography, and the Thousand and One Nights. She shows how beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient. The original German Schonheit in der Arabischen Kultur was published by C. D. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, in 1998. Paper edition (199-3), $22.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michelle Jackson-Beckett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-03-20
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0198879512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, and arts. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 explores why and how the Viennese design landscape was set apart--aesthetically and theoretically--from other European explorations of modern design. Jackson-Beckett examines interior design exhibitions, press, and debates about modern living in interwar Vienna, an overlooked area of modern European architecture and design history, arguing for a reconsideration of the contours of European modernism. The text analyses varied interpretations of modern domestic culture (Wohnkultur) in Vienna, and explores why these interpretations were distinct from other strands of European modernism. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur introduces new research and translation of primary sources on flexible, adaptable, and affordable design by architects, designers, and retailers. Vienna's design discourse also prefigured important postmodern and contemporary discussions on historicism, eclecticism, empathy, and user experience. Through extensive new research in archival and period sources, Jackson-Beckett illustrates how design ideas, taste, and portrayals of domestic culture of fin-de-si?cle Viennese Modernism (Wiener Moderne) were also deployed as forms of cultural and national identity both during the early years of the Social Democratic government in Vienna (1918-1934) and later under the fascist state (1934-1938).
Author: Pamela M. Lee
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006-02-17
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0262622033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the pervasive anxiety about and fixation with time seen in 1960s art. In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiveness, the subject of time and 1960s art has gone largely unexamined in historical accounts of the period. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology. Lee discusses the chronophobia of art relative to the emergence of the Information Age in postwar culture. The accompanying rapid technological transformations, including the advent of computers and automation processes, produced for many an acute sense of historical unknowing; the seemingly accelerated pace of life began to outstrip any attempts to make sense of the present. Lee sees the attitude of 1960s art to time as a historical prelude to our current fixation on time and speed within digital culture. Reflecting upon the 1960s cultural anxiety about temporality, she argues, helps us historicize our current relation to technology and time. After an introductory framing of terms, Lee discusses such topics as "presentness" with repect to the interest in systems theory in 1960s art; kinetic sculpture and new forms of global media; the temporality of the body and the spatialization of the visual image in the paintings of Bridget Riley and the performance art of Carolee Schneemann; Robert Smithson's interest in seriality and futurity, considered in light of his reading of George Kubler's important work The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things and Norbert Wiener's discussion of cybernetics; and the endless belaboring of the present in sixties art, as seen in Warhol's Empire and the work of On Kawara.
Author: Jim Stark
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-12-20
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781502846358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy name is Beaner Wiener, and I'm a black cat with some white bits here and there. I wrote this book all by myself ... well, I did have a bit of help from Overall-man, an old writer-guy who wore overalls all the time and lived in a farmhouse. He adopted me after I got dumped in the bush in a cardboard box with all my brothers and sisters for some reason that I didn't even know what it was. But oh, after that, I had a wonderful life. Overall-man said he had to write a description of this book, but I said I'd do it, 'cause it's my book anyway, right? Of course you're wondering how I could write this big book, eh? I mean I was only a little kitten, eh? Well, you'll be real surprised when you find out how I did it, but you should read the whole book and find out that way 'cause then the surprise won't be all ruined when you get to the ending. My sister who got adopted just before me, Overall-man called her Alienne, which is the female for "alien" 'cause she's all white and ghosty-looking and sometimes real grumpy-like. Overall-man called me "Beaner" because he said I was full of beans, whatever that is, and then he added the "Wiener" part later' cause he says sometimes I act like a wiener, whatever that is. Me and Alienne got to play all over that big old farmhouse, and we even got to go outside once we weren't too scared to do it. The yard was endless fun, but it had dangers too. For instance, there was a kennel full of yappy white Samoyed dogs out there, and those dogs made lots of puppies that got sold for money ... whatever that is. We thought at first that dogs ate kittens, but all they ever did was lick us till we fell over. Eww! After a while, Overall-man took us in a cage in his car and got us "fixed" by a vet! That wasn't very nice, actually. Alienne and me, we didn't even know we were broken! I remember one day the mayor came over to our house 'cause some farmer's wife got to complaining about the dogs' howling at night, but Overall-man said that it was legal, just like it's legal for cows to say "moo." The mayor talked and talked until he got himself all muddled up and stomped out. Oh, did we laugh! I saw snow when the winter came, and I even ran around in it. Angel from the farm came over and lived with us for a while and she even had her puppies at our house, and one of them turned out to be blind 'cause of this thing called cancer, and he got put asleep and went to "puppy heaven," Overall-man told us. Then summer came along ... and oh, that was ever so nice. We lived real near a river, and when it was real hot out, people went round the sandy shore dressed up-honestly-in only their underwear! And they went right in the water and got all wet ... on purpose! I have no idea why they would do such a perfectly silly thing. As you can see, I had a most adventurous life, but I have to stop writing here, 'cause you need to read the whole book to get my whole life story.
Author: Mandy Wiener
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
Published: 2023-04-03
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 1770108483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUPDATED EDITION With corruption and fraud endemic in democratic South Africa, whistleblowers have provided an invaluable service to society through disclosures about cover-ups, malfeasance and wrongdoing. Their courageous acts have resulted in the recovery of millions of rands to the fiscus and to their fellow citizens as well as in improved transparency and accountability. But in most cases, the outcomes for the whistleblowers themselves are devastating. Some have been gunned down in orchestrated assassinations, others have been threatened and targeted in sinister dirty-tricks campaigns. Many are hounded out of their jobs, ostracised and victimised. They are pushed to the fringes of society. These are the evocative accounts of South Africa’s whistleblowers, told in their own voices, from across the country. The Whistleblowers also advocates for a change in legislation, organisational support and social attitudes in order to embolden others to have the courage to step up. Photographs by Felix Dlangamandla
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 2732
ISBN-13: 0429960689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Artificial Intelligence" (AI) a term coined in the 1950s actually dates back as far as 1943. Now very much in the public consciousness, AI research has fallen in and out of favour over the years. Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence (10 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small interdisciplinary series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1970 and 1994. Covering ground in computer science, literature, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy and sociology, this set is a fascinating insight into the development of ideas surrounding AI.
